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* Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' (1902) is a psychological thriller masquerading as an African adventure story, but even before the psychological element takes center stage, the novella's protagonist, Charlie Marlowe, veers away from pure narrative at times to talk about his spiritual awakening (or spiritual death, as the case may be) while in the Congo. For several pages at a time, we come upon extensive philosophical treatises that were considered long-winded and dull even in Conrad's time. Partly justified by the fact that Marlowe is actually, in-story, speaking to a group of friends on a boat, and it is an unnamed first-person narrator listening to Marlowe who both opens and concludes the whole thing. |
* Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' (1902) is a psychological thriller masquerading as an African adventure story, but even before the psychological element takes center stage, the novella's protagonist, Charlie Marlowe, veers away from pure narrative at times to talk about his spiritual awakening (or spiritual death, as the case may be) while in the Congo. For several pages at a time, we come upon extensive philosophical treatises that were considered long-winded and dull even in Conrad's time. Partly justified by the fact that Marlowe is actually, in-story, speaking to a group of friends on a boat, and it is an unnamed first-person narrator listening to Marlowe who both opens and concludes the whole thing. |
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* The [[Marquis De Sade]] was quite fond of this trope, intercalating his famously depraved sex scenes with just as many (if less famous) lengthy rhetorics about the pointlessness of morality in a Godless universe and the glories of hedonism. ''The Philosophy in the Bedroom'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|probably the most blatant example]]. |
* The [[Marquis De Sade]] was quite fond of this trope, intercalating his famously depraved sex scenes with just as many (if less famous) lengthy rhetorics about the pointlessness of morality in a Godless universe and the glories of hedonism. ''The Philosophy in the Bedroom'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|probably the most blatant example]]. |
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** Even in ''120 Days of Sodom'', which was allegedly written to be a catalogue of different "passions", he can't help his philosophizing and the first part of the book (the 400 pages that were actually written, as opposed to just notes researchers have found) intertwines "tame" (for de Sade, that means watersports/scat, by the by) non-penetrative sexual scenes with why the four main characters are justified in their future torture and murder of their guests. This was a [[Stealth Parody]] of the day's aristocracy and those who they share power with. |
** Even in ''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', which was allegedly written to be a catalogue of different "passions", he can't help his philosophizing and the first part of the book (the 400 pages that were actually written, as opposed to just notes researchers have found) intertwines "tame" (for de Sade, that means watersports/scat, by the by) non-penetrative sexual scenes with why the four main characters are justified in their future torture and murder of their guests. This was a [[Stealth Parody]] of the day's aristocracy and those who they share power with. |
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* The book version of ''[[Emanuelle]]'' gets bogged down with these, especially the "Laws of Eros" conversation. The mouthpiece character goes on about how one can't simply replace bad laws with chaotic anomie, then goes on to make the bald assertion that anything man-made is more aesthetically pleasing than anything created by nature. |
* The book version of ''[[Emanuelle]]'' gets bogged down with these, especially the "Laws of Eros" conversation. The mouthpiece character goes on about how one can't simply replace bad laws with chaotic anomie, then goes on to make the bald assertion that anything man-made is more aesthetically pleasing than anything created by nature. |
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